The IRS may have utilized surveillance data collected by the National Security Agency to harass political opponents of the Obama administration, including the tea party, charged NSA whistleblower William Binney in a radio interview.

After working in the intelligence community for more than 30 years, Binney retired from the NSA in 2001. He co-founded a unit on automating NSA signals intelligence and served as technical leader for NSA intelligence in 2001. Binney is credited with helping to modernize the NSA‚Äôs worldwide eavesdropping network.

Asked on Aaron Klein‚Äôs WABC radio show Sunday whether he believes data collected on millions of Americans was used by the government against political enemies, Binney replied in the affirmative.

‚ÄúThat‚Äôs exactly the danger about letting the government have all this kind of information about its citizens,‚ÄĚ the ex-NSA official stated....